Hanger for garments



NOV. 7, 1933. R, w TAYLOR 1,934,018

HANGER FOR GARMENTS Filed June 22, 1929 301201 614 7 'ayioi;

Patented Nov. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

The invention relates to hangers and especially to hangers for hanging up garments such as coats, suits, and dresses. The principal object of the invention is to provide a hanger having a hook for engaging a support such as a clothes line, and also having means for preventing the hook from disengaging from the line. With the ordinary clothes hanger having an open hook when it is desired to hang a garment on a clothes line, especially if the clothes line be out of doors, the hook, as the hanger and garment swing, is likely to disengage from the line, so that both the hanger and the garment will fall to the ground. With my invention it is possible to apply the hanger with the garment to the line, with the assurance that it will not become disengaged and fall to the ground.

Another object of the invention is to provide.

a simple device of'the type described which is relatively cheap to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention hereinafter described can be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the scope of said invention.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a hanger embodying my invention. a

Figure 2 is an edge view thereof.

Figure 3 is a view of the hook with part of the curved stick broken away.

Figures 4 and 5 are views of the loopfor se- 40 curing the hanger to a clothes line.

I show in the drawing a curved member 10 adapted to receive and hold the garment; The member 10 may be made of wood 01' metal so far as my present invention is concerned. While I have shown this member as adapted for receiving coats, suits and the like, it will be obvious that the same may be constructed to hold trousers or other similar garments. The garment member 10 is suspended by a wire having one end 13 attached to the garment holding member, preferably at the center of the latter. The wire is secured to the member 10 by having its lower end upset to form a head 14 or the wire may be secured to the garment holding member in any other suitable manner. The hook member extends upward at 15 from the member 10 and is then bent outward at 16, the wire is then bent to form the clothes line securing member 17, and has a free end 19 disposed at one side of the vertical line of the portion 15. V

The clothes line securing member 17 is oval in construction having the width at 20 less than the width at 21. The wire is so bent that the clothes line 18 may be readily placed in the loop of the line securing member 17 but which will not become readily disengaged from the line. So that a clothes line may be easily placed in the loop of member 17, the Width at 23 is made substantially larger than at 22.

By bending the wire into an oval shaped loop as shown in Figures 4 and 5 the hanger may be readily placed on a clothes line, and such a hanger placed on a line cannot easily be blown off by the swaying of the hanger and garment placed thereon.

What I claim is:

1. A hanger of the class described comprising a garment supporting means and a suspending means, said suspending means comprising a wire attached to said garment supporting means and extending upwardly therefrom and bent to form an oval line gripping loop and a hook, said oval loop formed at the top of said hook by bending the wire back upon itself said oval communicating with said hook by a restricted passage so that a line may be inserted into the loop when the garment supporting means is substantially parallel with the line.

2. A hanger of the class described comprising a garment supporting means and a suspending means; said suspending means comprising a wire extending upwardly from the garment supporting means and bent to form a hook with a line engaging loop extending therefrom, said loop having the downwardly extending side crossing the upwardly extending side and offset therefrom whereby a line may be inserted into said loop when the garment supporting means is parallel to the line.

3. A clothesline hanger of the character de-- scribed comprising an arched bar, and a sus pension hook centrally fixed to the bar and including a single length of circular wire bent on itself to form an elongated stem with a single bill hook terminal at the free extremity thereof, the said hook being twisted to provide a single eye accessible therethrough and upstanding from the latter to be entirely outside of the same, the eye being contracted at the point of access thereof to retain a clothesline when introduced through the hook into the eye.

ROBERT WILLIAM TAYLOR. 

